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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do poets create, according to Bachelard, to transcend conflicted night dreams?
(a) Poetic descriptions of the night.
(b) Poetic daydreams.
(c) New resolutions to nightmares.
(d) New memories.

2. Who claimed that no man can build a nest as well as a small animal or bird?
(a) Pasternak.
(b) Vlaminck.
(c) Pare.
(d) Van Gogh.

3. How did Bosco transform Bergson's drawer metaphor?
(a) He claimed that the brain is more like a wardrobe with secret space.
(b) He claimed that the brain's filing cabinet is used only to file away memories that will be forgotton.
(c) He claimed that the brain is not a filing cabinet but an unstructured jumble of information.
(d) He claimed that the brain is not a filing cabinet, but the filing cabinet is a brain.

4. Who wrote of "La Redousse"?
(a) Bosco.
(b) Baudelaire.
(c) Rilke.
(d) Bachelard.

5. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?
(a) Poetic structure.
(b) Intimacy.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Architecture.

6. As understood by Bachelard, a house features which two seemingly conflicting dimensions?
(a) Poetry and science.
(b) House and home.
(c) Unity and complexity.
(d) Height and width.

7. The painter, Vlaminck, compared the contentment of humans to what?
(a) The security of a snail shell.
(b) The refuge a rat finds in his hole or a rabbit in his burrow.
(c) The security of a chrysalis.
(d) The majesty of a cathedral.

8. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Externalities, that which we hear.
(b) Internalities, that which we hear.
(c) Externalities, that which we say.
(d) Internalities, that which we say.

9. Topo-analysis is useful for studying what?
(a) The structure of a house.
(b) The structure of a poem.
(c) Isolated poetic images.
(d) Psychoanalysis.

10. A woodpecker pecking in a tree can be compared to what in the author's continuing metaphor?
(a) A poetic anomoly.
(b) A psychoanalyst probing the psyche.
(c) Annoying neighbors who create a disturbance.
(d) A storm ravaging a house.

11. According to Bachelin, which is the oldest season?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

12. What can be said of a closed box, in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) It inspires the poetic spirit.
(b) It represents forgotten memories.
(c) It has more to see and experience than an open chest.
(d) It represents the human need for secrecy and confinement.

13. How is a cathedral similar to a snail shell in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Quasimodo considered the cathedral to be claustrophobic, like a snail shell.
(b) Both seem born of their surroundings.
(c) Quasimodo inhabited the cathedral, with its nooks and crannies, as a snail inhabits its shell.
(d) Both are constructed of sturdy materials.

14. Bachelard theorizes that dreams of nests inspire what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) A desire to have a home that opens to nature.
(c) Fear of flying.
(d) Dreams of security.

15. When should metaphor be used, in Bachelard's opinion?
(a) Rarely, only when words are inadequate.
(b) Frequently, to add color and variety to expression.
(c) Frequently, to stimulate creativity.
(d) Rarely, only to add complexity to a poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?

2. How is a nest connected to the foliage of the forest according to the author?

3. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?

4. A home of other days is an example of what for Bachelard?

5. When memories reside in parts of a house, which of the following is true in the author's opinion?

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